I've kinda wanted to run something with Mutants and Masterminds for a while now, and after watching a whole lot of Venture Bros. I decided to make something a little oddball but still rooted in the Comics industry. Essentially, I've been cobbling together an idea for a reclusive island of Super Scientist Villains. The Players will be minions/experiments who attempt to earn freedom after breaking out from under one of them.

What'd be really great is if other people could interject their own ideas and maybe offer some words of advice on creating a few of the Super villains and their Minions? We'll be playing at PL 8 and this will be my first actual campaign for MnM.

But you've got loads of scope for lesser characters that the players can choose from. Like the robot AI, or the experiment subject, or the spy who was sent to gain information and captured and is now making her escape.

It sounds really cool, I'll have a read through the fluff you linked when I get the chance.

I suspect the real trick will be to control the powers/abilities in such a manner that island escape isn't too easy: you'll find that stopping super-beings moving about is rather tricky in the main part. Perhaps they need some resource/aspect of the island to maintain the powers (or even so far as their lives?) Or perhaps a social restraint (group loyalty) to keep the flyers/teleports from disappearing off over the horizon.

The base idea does sound fun: a "super" social rites uprising as it were.

Doctor Devious wrote:I suspect the real trick will be to control the powers/abilities in such a manner that island escape isn't too easy: you'll find that stopping super-beings moving about is rather tricky in the main part. Perhaps they need some resource/aspect of the island to maintain the powers (or even so far as their lives?) Or perhaps a social restraint (group loyalty) to keep the flyers/teleports from disappearing off over the horizon.

The base idea does sound fun: a "super" social rites uprising as it were.

I figured I could put some sort of shield around the entire island, being pumped out of Starvault's facility, which guards against ports out but allows players to warp inside of it. It'd also encourage an actual assault on him and his entrenched position. (Although I will have a few other rare places set up for them to escape if thats just what they want.)